Spit-up On My Shoulder

An important message from MomsRising.org about car seats:
“I think back to all the times when my baby was teething or gnawing on the side of her car seat, and my heart sinks wondering about what her tiny body ingested.” –Bobbi (mother of a one year-old)
Can you believe it? A recent study conducted by the watchdog [...]

Life’s Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom came out in 2002 and I finally got around to reading it. You know how that goes when you’re a mom–there’s just not enough hours in the day. I highly recommend this book. It’s a compilation of Lisa Belkin’s personal columns from The New York [...]

This Friday, May 23, I will be a guest on New Mom Central’s Blog Talk Radio Show. I hope you will listen in or call in with questions. Here is a promo for the show from Cheryl Wenzel-Nelson, the moderator of several blogs for mom, who will be interviewing me:
New Mom Central [...]

I received a special Mother’s Day card that I wanted to share with you. It’s from MomsRising.org, an nonprofit organization that is working to bring together millions of people who share a common concern about the need to build a more family-friendly America.
Click here to view a cute card with a song [...]

Ever since I became a mother, I’ve struggled with keeping the house clean and not letting chores overwhelm me throughout the day. A few weeks ago the “chore issue” came to a head again as I felt I was doing WAY more than anyone else in the house.
Then I read an article in The [...]